{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ibc-code-regulations-1987/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ibc-code-regulations-1987/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/549",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (IBC Code) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ibc-code-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Equivalents",
  "text": "Where the IBC Code requires that a particular fitting, material, appliance, apparatus, item of equipment or type thereof should be fitted or carried in a ship, or that any particular provision should be made, or any procedure or arrangement should be complied with, the Secretary of State may allow any other fitting, material, appliance, apparatus, item of equipment or type thereof to be fitted or carried, or any other provision, procedure or arrangement to be made in that ship, if he is satisfied by trial thereof or otherwise that such fitting, material, appliance, apparatus, item of equipment or type thereof, or that any particular provision, procedure or arrangement is at least as effective as that required by the IBC Code.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2082",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (IBC Code) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2082",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (IBC Code) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/549/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:28:57.521070+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}